Washington:

US President Joe Biden has said that New Orleans attacker Shamsuddin Jabbar acted alone despite indications that he had strong support from ISIS.

At least 14 people were killed and 35 others injured when Jabbar drove his pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning.

The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of terrorism. Jabbar, 42, a former soldier, was also killed in a shootout with local police. A resident of Houston, he moved to New Orleans.

“Today, the FBI told me that, at this time, we have no information that anyone else was involved in this attack. Biden told reporters at the White House that they have established that the attacker was the same person. who planted explosives in these ice coolers at two nearby locations in the French Quarter, rammed his car into the crowd a few hours earlier on Thursday.

In response to a question, Biden said he was trying to travel to New Orleans. “They believe he had a remote detonator in his car to set off those two ice chests,” he said.

“The attacker posted several videos in the hours before the attack that indicated his strong support for ISIS. Federal law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community are investigating any foreign or domestic contacts or contact activity.” “Investigating possible links to the attack,” the president said.

Biden met with his national security team shortly after returning from Camp David on Thursday afternoon. He told reporters that he was also investigating whether there was a connection between the New Orleans attack and the Las Vegas blast.

“So far… they’ve just been briefed, they’ve yet to find any evidence of such a connection. I’ve instructed them to keep watching. The guy who rented the truck that exploded in Las Vegas also told the U.S. served as an active-duty military man, and the FBI is working with the Department of Defense on the investigation, including the service member’s possible motives and what he served with I asked my team to speed up these investigations Guided so that we have answers to our unanswered questions.

“Every resource is available to do the job, and we’re going to share the facts as I learn them so the American people don’t have to be surprised. In the meantime, as I said last night “New Orleans is a city of great spirit. You can’t put it down, and we’re seeing that today,” Biden said.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Meyerkas told Fox News that the New Orleans terror attack suspect is “part of a trend of homegrown violent extremists that we’ve seen develop and emerge over the last ten years.” According to ABC News, Jabbar served in the Army in human resources and information technology roles from 2007 to 2015, during which he was deployed to Afghanistan from February 2009 to January 2010. He served in the Army Reserve from 2015 to 2020 as Be an IT expert. The news channel said the jobs they listed were not directly combat roles. JRHL of PTIL

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